Okay, can I just say that I’ve been wanting to make Harry Potter cookies for FOREVER?! I finally had occasion to make some last week.
One of our family friends is courageously battling bone cancer and celebrated her birthday last week. She loves Harry Potter so I made her some Harry Potter cookies as a birthday present. :)
I know, a strange combination, right?
So I made some wine glasses and corks out of cookies last week (and my picture isn’t that great because I’d forgotten to take any before I put them in their container to be delivered and since it’s such a fragile shape, I was not about to risk taking them back out…so…lame picture ;) )
I’d had a bit of a crisis because the cutter I’d ordered was waaaay too small and so I made my own using some sheet metal and then all of those cookies broke, so this was take two using a sturdier shape, but yeah, was not going to risk breaking these ones. But thankfully everything worked out without tooooo much stress and were still completed on time. Whew!
I’d still some how managed to have some leftover dough after losing the first batch so I made some school cookies for my mom because she helped me out by delivering the wine glass cookies for me. Aren’t the bookworms so CUTE?! Since she’s a librarian, I knew she’d appreciate these little readers ;)
Too fun, right?! ;)
Spencer is 15 months! Yay!
*This kid is GO GO GO!! I am constantly chasing him around. He also has a knack for running away when he sees me coming with a diaper, tissue, play clothes, etc.
*Also very adventurous. He loves the slide at the playground and can go down all by himself! He can usually get up to the slide by himself, depending on the playground.
*Still says Da-da, but will say Ma-ma (hurray!), and pup-pup (puppy). Also makes a sort of ‘buh’ sound when he wants a book read to him and when someone makes a “beep-beep!” sound, he says “boop!”. Occasionally uses the ‘more’ sign, but overall sees signing as unnecessary when he can throw his food off his tray to say he’s done eating, or pull at the refrigerator door when he’s thirsty or shove things in my face when he needs me to do or fix something. He’s got his own sign language, you could say. ;)
*Cut FOUR more teeth in the last month. He now has eight teeth! It was a very long month of teething…
*Loves animals. All animals right now are ‘pup-pups’ but he loves watching them.
*Already has an attachment to his stuffed puppy. It’s so funny to see the differences between Nathan and Spencer. Nathan didn’t really get attached to a stuffed animal or a blanket until he was almost 2, but Spencer already has his favorite stuffed puppy and blanket.
*A bit of a stinker. He can tell when I don’t want him to do something, so he keeps doing it and laughing. He’s got a thing for my glasses, which totally makes me crazy because I really don’t want them broken, but he loves to knock them off my face when I least expect it and then laugh like a maniac.
*Starting to fight back a little more when Nathan tries to throw his weight around. Just yesterday he whacked Nathan upside the head with a hot wheels car. Yeah. That was fun…
*Definitely wants to be in on anything big brother is doing. We’re definitely at a point where, for everyone to be happy, we need two of every. single. toy. Oof.
*Responding to lots of verbal cues. Almost always responds when we say his name, he will wave to the rest of the family when it’s time for bed and I say “Time to say good night to Spencer!”. And at the end of prayers, he’ll clasp his hands together when we say ‘amen’ (even if he was making a racket during the prayer ;) )
*Gives the best little hugs!
*Crazy boy at bath time. We’ve recently started putting bubble bath in the boys’ bath and he loves to splash most vigorously. He’s also has started sticking his face into the bubbles (presumably to eat them) and then abruptly comes back up once his face hits water with a santa beard of bubbles on his chin. It’s hilarious!
*Still puts everything in his mouth. I’ve caught him several times over in the corner by the washer and dryer, eating stray lint off the floor. Yep. Gross. He loves it though, whenever I find him back there, he’s always got a big grin on his, as well as slobbery lint. Silly boy.
*Keeps us laughing! Love you little man!
I’ve made quite a few cookies in the last month, and I’ve way behind on getting them all up! So here’s the beginning of the catch up.
I made some University of Michigan cookies for a birthday last month and while I don’t really follow any football, these were really fun to make and I think they turned out really well!
